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The Working Paper provides the theoretical foundations for an analytically and normatively adequate understanding of “governance” – a term and concept that has been widely used since the turn of the millennium for describing new forms of... more
Celem artykułu jest prezentacja statusu i zastosowania metody modelowej zakładanej w idealizacyjnej teorii nauki. Artykuł składa się z następujących części: 1. „Modelowanie w nauce. Dwa przykłady”; 2. „Idealizacja a abstrakcja i... more
Text interpretations are usually leading to ambiguous results. This is especially the case for the interpretation of Max Weber's methodology. I discuss Thomas Burger's interpretation that Weber applied Rickert's methodology and that he... more
The article presents an attempt to describe the hybrid regimes as a new type of ideal political regime, which is situated on the continuum axis, by considering the phenomenon of antinomy. The author tried to define the significant... more
Reigning views on psychiatric nosology regard as "too subjective" certain features of diagnosis which respected psychiatrists have reported and several empirical studies have confirmed. We describe two of these persistent "mysteries" of... more
For schizophrenia, as well as for many other disorders, there are many approaches (McHugh and Slavney, 1998).Nowadays, it is referred to as a mental disorder. This understanding of schizophrenia implies the presence of a core set, which... more
For more than a decade, research studies on the various personality disorders have been carried out at an ever-expanding pace (Blashfield and McElroy, 1987; Gorton and Akhar, 1990). Factors promoting this research have included the... more
Most recent discussions of classification and diagnosis in psychiatry ignore the underlying methodologic and philosophic issues. The authors directly address these issues by redefining a classical approach that was already employed in... more
The normative binary of 'good-progressive' and 'bad-retrograde' nationalism, traceable to the civic and ethnic dichotomy, is alive and well in studies of nationalism and populism today. This article underlines the insufficiency of this... more
By combining the methodologies of Max Weber, Karl R. Popper, and Alfred Schutz, it is possible to solve the shared problems of the natural and the social sciences (the Kantian Problem) as well as the specific problems of the social... more
The aim of this paper is to consider the influence of the methodological status of the concept of the totalitarian syndrome on the strategy of its development. It is argued that the totalitarian syndrome as put forward by Carl J.... more
The normative binary of ‘good-progressive’ and ‘bad-retrograde’ nationalism, traceable to the civic and ethnic dichotomy, is alive and well in studies of nationalism and populism today. This article underlines the insufficiency of this... more
The Working Paper provides the theoretical foundations for an analytically and normatively adequate understanding of “governance” – a term and concept that has been widely used since the turn of the millennium for describing new forms of... more
This paper critiques the view, widely held by philosophers of mind and cognitive scientists, that psychological explanation is a matter of ascribing propositional attitudes (such as beliefs and desires) towards language-like propositions... more